Gayle Petersen
Mailing Address:
764 N Egan
Burns, OR 97720
Phone: 541 573-6224
gaylepc@centurytel.net
Kids:
Michael
Shanna
Tom
THREE GRANDCHILDREN!!!
High school graduation and then two years at the U of I. Married Dave Chamberlain in 1967 and I did one more year while he finished. We moved to Aberdeen, ID, where he taught high school ag. for two years. There our son Michael was born. Then back to Moscow for more schooling. In 1973, Dave joined the cooperative extension service and we moved to Owyhee, NV, for three years. While it was very isolated (grocery shopping every two months), we had wonderful experiences there and met life-long friends. Then we transfered to Las Vegas, which was the opposite side of the culture coin. We took in what the big city had to offer, but spent lots of time exploring the countryside, trying real hard to not see another human being during those excursions. In 1979, we adopted a beautiful two year old girl, Shanna. Dave accepted a position with Oregon extension and we moved to Roseburg in 1980, where our son Tom was born. After three years of rain, we headed for the high desert of eastern Oregon at Burns. We love the openness, the changing of the seasons, the hunting and exploring opportunies, the small town atmosphere, and even the cold winters and hot summers. We have been here almost twenty five years. I was a stay-at-home mom for quite a few years, volunteering in the schools when our children were little. Then I went to work for the Harney County School District and have been with them for eighteen years. I have worked in both the elementary school and the middle school with the Title I reading program and have thoroughly enjoyed that time helping children to read better. But I knew it was time to do some other put-off projects, so I retired the first of February and will be hanging up my whistle at the end of this school year. We still spend a lot of time in Idaho. My family is still in Moscow and now two of our children are there, too. So we go that way as often as possible. I spend most of the summer at Couer d'Alene Lake and play with our three grandchild when ever I get the chance,
I am looking forward to this class reunion. I still see us all as eighteen, but my arthritic fingers often remind me of the truth.
UPDATED - July 10th, 2005
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| Dave and I went to Wallowa lake for our 38th anniversary. |
Dave and I went to Wallowa lake for our 38th anniversary. It is still beautiful and the weather was much better than for the senior sneak in 1965!